A young woman trapped in a deeply dysfunctional family in the seedy wilds of 1990s South Florida has to make a choice?save her family, or save herself?in this larger-than-life debut novel from the acclaimed author of Lay the Favorite.?Florida, we got it all. Motorsports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night.?That's how twelve-year-old CC's father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burns down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a life for himself, his wife, and his two young daughters in a place he picks largely at random, because the living seems easy. CC?s mother is thirty-five going on seventeen, a housewife who just wants to drive a Mustang and hang out at the mall. CC?s sister goes from loving Debbie Gibson and jelly shoes to having a full-on drug addiction and listening only to heavy
Author : Beth Raymer
Pages : 240 pages
Publisher : Random House
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 9780812993165
ISBN-13 : 9780812993165